Word: possessives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even loneliness is shared by the extraordinary cast of freaks, hustlers, staring twins, leathery nudists and child dancing champions who populate Arbus' prints. Loneliness merely exists among them. Arbus' people own no common baggage and barely even possess themselves. Her theme was not so much personality as defensiveness; the limits of human gesture amazed her. "Everybody has this thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way, and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw...Our whole...
...tangential role. The Pope defined that role for them last month when he addressed them as "specialists of the science and of the intelligence of the faith." As for the magisterium, Paul VI has made it clear over the years that he considers only the bishops and himself to possess the power "to tell the people what God asks them to believe...
...Character of the North Vietnamese: "Malraux once said that the people who have influenced history have a quality that can be seen on their faces. The North Vietnamese possess a serenity rarely seen in Asia. They always seem to be fighting an invader or a natural calamity. The Mongols, the Chinese and the floods were all defeated. More earth was moved in constructing the Red River dikes than in building the Great Wall of China. General Giap once proudly said that the Vietnamese were the only people to stop the Mongols. 'We will be the only ones to stop...
...central value of Western society is the fanatical faith in science. Therefore those who possess "scientific" knowledge constitute the elite of Western intellectual culture...
...weapons on Sadat's shopping list were tanks ("It is not logical that we cross the desert on rubber tires"), torpedo boats and electronic equipment. Since the Russians refused to supply Egypt with these items, Sadat said, the new strategy was for Egypt to manufacture them. "We must possess the arms factories so my will may not be dictated by friends or non-friends...